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- Comment on It will be great, they said... 4 days ago:
unfucking postfix
This is not a task for the feint of heart, nor was it ever, even back when the technology was first invented. I salute you.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 4 days ago:
I’m going to call it like I saw it, a very long time ago.
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You have an “open” product that is basically purpose built to make data hoarding and piracy practical, yet it requires a login with a central service. I don’t care what justification anyone thinks makes that worthwhile or even a good compromise. Signaling to any corporate entity that you’re in possession of such a thing is a bad idea to begin with. They shouldn’t even know you exist. That information, along with anything else you do with the product is compromising to you and can be sold for money if aggregated with everyone else’s data.
If you find this rant out of place in our modern world, I’d like to point to the concept of shifting baselines. This didn’t used to be normal and nothing short of greed continues the behavior. The technology before this ran/runs without anyone knowing. Consider VLC, or XBMC.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 5 days ago:
To quote your quote:
I got the product launched. It worked. I was proud of what I’d created. Then came the moment that validated every concern in that MIT study: I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.
I think the author just independently rediscovered “middle management”. Indeed, when you delegate the gruntwork under your responsibility, those same people are who you go to when addressing bugs and new requirements. It’s not on you to effect repairs: it’s on your team. I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. The idea that relying on AI to do nuanced work like this and arrive at the exact correct answer to the problem, is naive at best. I’d be sweating too.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 1 week ago:
In a small, anecdotal way, I can say with confidence that the level of fiber trenching that happened (in a major metro area) from late 1999 through 2002 was on a whole other level.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 1 week ago:
And just like that, the e-machine continues to fulfill its intended purpose: browse the internet like it’s 1998. It’s never obsolete, but you do need a time machine to take full advantage of it.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take it one step further and say that if you absolutely must use Office, O365 works in a browser on any operating system. You literally don’t need Windows anymore for that.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 3 weeks ago:
My prediction is that they’ll go full SaaS and make the non-pro version “free”, with a whole raft of features “cloud only” behind a Azure/O365 subscription.
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 3 weeks ago:
Wow. Either someone was too lazy to turn of the default settings, or figured it was appropriate to ask. Either way, that’s some shocking lack-of-awareness going on.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 3 weeks ago:
Landlord: You shot me!
Tennant: Yup. Take a look. At least I didn’t fuck up the paint or the carpet.
- Comment on Radon 3 weeks ago:
Honest.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 weeks ago:
Solid list!
but i always felt those two game designs were kissing cousin
I see them as the same genre. You have this “pushing the map’s frontier” mechanic, along with some power or item progression to enable that. The rest is find-and-seek to connect all those dots. IMO, the only major difference is a side vs top-down perspective.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 3 weeks ago:
junk food vegan
I’ve seen this with my own eyes, but didn’t know there was a common name. Indeed it is possible to be slothful, fat, and practically live off of peanut-butter, all at the same time. The intent was there, but complete nutrition was not.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 weeks ago:
Dear Microsoft CEO and C-suite people.
Push back on your investors now before it’s too late. AI features are ruining your product and its image.
A lot of companies are tied in up this AI bubble and Microsoft is not too big to fail in this regard. Your customer-base has gotten by just fine without AI and invasive screen-capture technology used to support it, for decades at this point. Most people see your product as an operating system: a product designed to support other products. They do not want more capabilities from it, and have come to rely on good support for hardware compatibility, stability updates, performance updates, and most importantly, security updates. It is the darling of OEM PC installs, and government and commercial enterprise continue to renew their site licenses because of it. These are the core features that will continue to bring value and keep people on your platform, not AI.
If you firmly believe that agentic AI is the future, make it an optional installable product or a completely distinct operating system altogether. This is strategic since it has radically different marketing needs than Windows or Windows Professional, and supports a distinct subset of your overall install base. Foisting this feature set on your existing users is doing nothing more than artificially inflate adoption numbers, and you’re risking the entire enterprise to think your investors don’t already know this. It’s not smart, it’s not even brinksmanship or a bold technology decision. It’s reckless.
- Comment on Do you think there would eventually be technology to delete/replace memories (like the *Men In Black* device). How much do you fear such technology? (like misuse by governments/criminals) 3 weeks ago:
Like I feel like there are hidden traumas that got wiped by someone, like… trauma that’s even worse than those that I currently remember, or I wonder if the happy memories are perhaps implanted by someone to try to cover up trauma.
This gets complicated and messy, fast. Allow me to provide some personal experience in this area.
As someone that has had trauma hidden from myself behind dissociation and denial, I’ve done a hell of a lot of work to not do that anymore. I even have some recall, which is… not great feeling, but I’m now living in the real world. One aspect of this was being triggered by awful verbal and social behavior in others, and almost immediately forgetting that it happened; bullshit would just slide off my brain like it was coated in teflon.
Let me say that having a “spotless” memory like that is hell. It’s a state where you fail to learn important red flags about situations, people, and more. This used to get me into a lot of trouble. It runs contrary to avoiding danger - survival in extreme cases - even if you have to sift through a pile of triggers to get to the truth. I won’t sit here and say that trauma is good for anyone, but there may be legitimate cases where being triggered (because of trauma) might just save your ass.
At the same time, folks will self-medicate and over-medicate with all manner of substances, in order to forget or dull their senses in the face of trauma and triggers. If there is a more humane option, it absolutely should be explored lest we continue to watch such people slowly self-destruct.
With that, I’ll opine that the best possible answer is something that can be surgically applied to specific memories that are causing more harm than good. With the careful guidance of therapists and doctors. Somehow. I have no idea how something like that would even work. Therapy and mindfulness are probably the best we’ll have for a long time to come.
- Comment on Do you think there would eventually be technology to delete/replace memories (like the *Men In Black* device). How much do you fear such technology? (like misuse by governments/criminals) 3 weeks ago:
I was gonna say. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of pharmaceuticals that will wipe out your short-term memory. That’s the easiest way to “hack” a brain and eliminate knowledge of the recent past, assuming the subject didn’t take a nap first. That said, the technique is nowhere near as targeted as a neuralizer (MiB device).
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 3 weeks ago:
I love that the fox example is probably the very bottom of the “not even remotely related to news, yet true” barrel.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 3 weeks ago:
“Consumers are playing fewer games, playing them for longer, and as a result, outside of a few notable exceptions, many new games are struggling to stand out and achieve the sales they may once have had, whilst the market is more volatile and the potential for any specific title less predictable as a result,”
Really, this is about buying fewer Ubisoft games.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 4 weeks ago:
Dear AAA game studios: Just look at Hades II.
LOOK AT IT. A good chunk of the art you see on every playthrough isn’t even animated.
I’m probably going to clear 300+ hours on this thing before I put it down, and I’ll likely tell everyone to buy it because it’s that good. Photorealism is the last thing I care about.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
I agree. FWIW, unofficially, fans are already calling it the “GabeCube” which is no less punny.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 4 weeks ago:
Is this a computer in a keyboard ? Staggering beauty.
Indeed! That’s how it was done in the 80’s.
The trend was built around keeping the cost down. That and a screen (TV) could cost as much as the whole unit and you probably already had one of those. Nowadays we don’t think twice about our laptops coming with a screen, but if I could somehow keep the screen but replace the rest, I’d welcome the price cut that comes with it.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Why would you choose to do that?
I’m easily distracted and am usually occupied with my own thoughts. So, not hearing traffic, other people, and my general surroundings is actually stressful for me; relying on vision alone would be dangerous. I do a lot better keeping my ears open so I can sit back, muse about this or that in my head, and let any sudden sounds or irregularities in my environment catch my attention.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 weeks ago:
This raises questions about the opportunity cost of $300/mo. It’s not a huge amount of money, but for some budgets, it might make a car payment or groceries possible. Or, if saved or invested wisely, would it tip things in favor of the 50-year term?
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 4 weeks ago:
IMO, it is/was an advice and self-improvement trend that, like all such trends, ends leaving a vacuum for something else. Kind of like fad diets. So yes, I think that has been largely replaced by the alpha/guru influencer thing now.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 4 weeks ago:
That’s an extreme simplification, but yes, that’s the gist.
- Comment on No Way 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a very Paulie take on things: so close, yet so far.
IMO, peak Sopranos is Tony’s reaction to his voice while in a coma. We finally get an idea of how he really comes across after many seasons.
- Comment on The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1! 4 weeks ago:
The real tragedy is how stale that bread is; Subway ^™^ crust isn’t supposed to do that. Is it too late to rescue the lunchmeat and start over?
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 4 weeks ago:
Paging Mr. Munroe…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 weeks ago:
The most important thing to keep in mind with celebrity actors is that they make a living pretending to be someone/something they’re not. And they’re damn good at it too.
Not to cast doubt on everyone in that profession. Rather, proceed with an abundance of skepticism when considering celebrity endorsements.
